doe yow knowe the plaintiffs
Thomas Allen
Master of Dulwich Colledge and
Tobias Lisle the
Defendant and how longe haue yow knowne them and either of them

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2.

did not yow about the yeare .1644 buy a share of the
ffortune playhouse
by the name of one Twelft part thereof of
Thomas Barker late of
London
deceased and did not yow desire the Defendant
Tobias Lisle
that that party which dealt
for the profit of thes two shares and a halfe which he was intrusted for the
children of
mistress Minshaw and
Mr Cade
should take vp the profitts of your share also and yow would pay them for their paines

did not yow buy halfe a share of the
ffortune playhouse
about the yeare 1642. and did not yow desire that
William ffinch
which tooke vp the Defendant
Lisles
money should take vp yours also and yow would pay him for it

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5.

did not yow heare the Defendant
Tobias Lisle complayne vnto
Thomas Allen the now
Master of Dulwich Colledge
& one of the plaintiffs in this cause that the said
Master did maintaine
Mathew Smith to keepe possession of
the said
playhouse and that the said
Smith
did lett the said house to
players and
ffencers and
Dancers on the rope vntill it woud bee pulled
downe And the said
Thomas Allen replyed the said
Smith should doe so and that hee knewe a reason for it,
and was not this complaint made as the
said
Allen came out of one
Pitts his house nere the
ffortune

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6.

did not yow and one
Thomas Hoare
stand by and were present when
Mathias Allen the then
master and
Thomas Allen who was then
Warden (and is now
Master
) did agree with the Defendant
Tobias Lisle that if the said Defendant
Lisle
would take two
leases of two shares and a halfe of the
ffortune playhouse in trust for
Mary Minshaw and
Susan Cade[s] vpon such
condicions as they would putt into the same and would pay so much money as then was in arreare of
rent, that the said
Mathias and
Thomas (if the said Defendant
Tobias desired it) would pay the said
Defendant
Lisle his money which hee then payd
ʌ⸢being 74 li. 1 s. 0. ob.⸣ and interest for the same, and whatever other charges and damages the said
Lisle should
sustaine at the end of ffour yeares (that they the said
master and
Warden[s] and the rest of that
corporacion might by
that meanes gaine the rest of their tenantes to pay their
rents the better) And did not yow and
Thomas Hoare subscribe your
names to this agreement in the yeare 1619. and hath not the said
Lisle demaunded the said money and
leases to bee delivered back, and
doth not the plaintiffThomas Allen
refuse to performe this agreement.

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7.

doe yow not know and remember that some 8 yeares since the said
Thomas Allen (who is now
Master and was then
warden
) did come into the house being parte of the
ffortune playhouse
where yow then did dwell and forbid yow to pay any
rent to any of
the sharers of the house meaning this Defendant
Tobias Lisle or any of the rest

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8

was not
Mathew Smith
with yow and was sworne and allowed to bee
[<.>] in fforma pauperis to answere a
bill proferred against the said
Defendant
Tobias Lisle
ʌ⸢Smith & other by the said plaintiffs⸣ and were not both
yow and the said
Smith & others served to answere to the said
Bill and doe not the said plaintiffs
in the said
Bill
stay proceding in the suit of
Smith
notwithstanding hee was served ʌ⸢with a
subpena⸣
and did ʌ⸢not hee⸣[answere] stand out in contempt vntill a writt of rebellion issued
out against
him for want of an answere And doe yow not know or haue credibly vnderstood that the said
Smith by the
order & appointment of the said
plaintiffs haue [not] set and lett the aforesaid premisses called the
ffortune playhouse & the
appurtenances & taken the profittes of them and converted them to his &
the plaintiffs
or some of their & which of their vse

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9:

doe yow know that
Mathew Smith by the
order
of the plaintiffes⸢did⸣
keepe possession of the said house and premisses in question for the plaintiffs vse and did
not yow heare the said
Smith and
his wife or one of them confess
and acknowledge vnto yow after the said premisses were ruinated and pulled downe by the
souldiers
that the said plaintiffs did giue him or them or some of them and which of them order &
direccion to keepe possession of the said premisses and to take and detaine in this custody the
lead
timber stuffe and other
materialls then ⸢last⸣ in the said house and premisses in question and about what
tyme was it that yow heard them
the said
Smith⸢&
his wife
⸣ or either of them so speake and say.

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10

did not the plaintiffs giue order to the tenantes of the said premisses
in question to pay their
rents to them and not to the said Defendant
Tobyas Lisle or any other the
Lessees of the said premisses
and how long is it since the said plaintiffs did giue such order and direccion and did not yow heare
Andrew
Cage
one of the tenantes of the
said premisses confesse and acknowledge that the said plaintiffs had giuen him and the rest of the tenants
order to pay their
rentes vnto the said plaintiffs
And haue not the plaintiffs receiued the same
rents. and how long haue they so receiued them as
yow know or haue credibly heard or beleeue and what induceth yow so to beleeue

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11

what other matter or thinge doe yow know materiall or effectuall for or on the Defendantes
behalfe in this cause.